This post just makes Gitlab seem salty and childish. Not a good look.
The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
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Re: The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
#32All else aside, I realized that if you add hosting and assume dogfooding, GitLab's product is a platform made for building, configuring and running the platform you're building, maintaining and configuring... It feels Hofstadterian from several angles.
> Idera acquired Travis CI
This is disingenuous. That acquisition is not a validating example.
That aside, I don't feel a need to read in as much passive-aggressiveness as everyone commenting does. It's a bit of rivalry, sure.
Resource-usage aside, I was happy self-hosting GitLab for years.
Re: The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
#33Someone send gitlab a box of tissues. And another box full of competent sysadmins.
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
An untruth stated calmly doesn’t become true. A truth stated passionately doesn’t become false. This is at the heart of why most appeals to emotion are logical fallacies.
Having said that, people being emotional certainly goes a long way toward explaining why pleasant people are more likely to be listened to.
Re: The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
#34For all the bashing GitLab gets, personally, I want GitLab to survive and keep competing at some level with GitHub. Should GitHub dominate the market and gobble up competition, we all know how it goes for its parent company.
As soon as gitlab sprung up, I got unlimited free repos and shortly after CI. I'm happy with this competition.
Praise be to the teams that patron the second best and keep the first best on their toes.
Re: The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
#35Every time github releases a feature this is the response. These posts are so pathetic. I’m surprised that they continue to play this angle. It’s a very polarizing way to address the community that will definitely continue to stir up us vs them mentality between GitHub and Gitlab users.
It's especially rich considering Gitlab is, or at least was, an almost identical clone of Github. Didn't they actually use Github's exact HTML at the beginning, including several instances of "GH" or "GitHub" as class names etc?
Re: The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
#36Some will continue to prefer a self-hosted GitLab instance over GitHub, but requiring at least 4GB of RAM [1] for a low traffic instance sounds like an aberration. There should be better ways to manage memory consumption, and a lean GitLab instance that we have full control over could still be their selling point over GitHub. [1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/install/requirements.html#memory
Hi this is Craig, the Engineering Manager for the Memory team. We're actively working on reducing the memory issues with GitLab. We are approaching this by responding to known issues and building out proactive tooling to inform developers of memory usage during the development cycle.
You can follow along with our efforts on this board: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/boards/1143987?label_...
Re: The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
#37What a strange post. GitLab is under siege from GitHub. The argument for GitLab has always been that they are more feature-rich, the argument for GitHub has been that their uptime is >80% and their UX is excellent. If GitHub achieves feature parity, GitLab is dead.
We use Gitlab for work because the self-hosted version is free. For small companies Github is a pretty steep unnecessary expense, and we appreciate control over our own servers. Unless Github makes a self-hosted version there isn't really a comparison for us.
To me Github is about the community. Lots of open source software and forks of that software, you can put your profile on your resume. Gitlab has more features and self-hosting; Github has a coding social network.
Re: The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
#38> Well, if you don’t believe that it’s better for a user, at least believe it’s more efficient for us, because we only have to release one application instead of two. Efficiency is in our values.
Wow, this is some terrible reasoning. Efficiency and cardinality are orthogonal.
For a company of the size of Gitlab, releasing two apps instead of one shouldn't be much of a burden.
Now two different concerns' uptime and performance are coupled.
No wonder that Gitlab has an infamous track record when it comes to response times / uptime.
(more constructively: I'd point out that both end-users and GL developers could have an equally unified experience while the concerns remained separate. Good architecture makes it possible)
Re: The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
#39What a strange post. GitLab is under siege from GitHub. The argument for GitLab has always been that they are more feature-rich, the argument for GitHub has been that their uptime is >80% and their UX is excellent. If GitHub achieves feature parity, GitLab is dead.
> If GitHub achieves feature parity, GitLab is dead. Maybe , assuming GH matches them at the same price points per feature and including self-hosting as a feature.
GitHub does offer self-hostable enterprise edition, but its price is not publicly available.
Re: The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
#40Every time github releases a feature this is the response. These posts are so pathetic. I’m surprised that they continue to play this angle. It’s a very polarizing way to address the community that will definitely continue to stir up us vs them mentality between GitHub and Gitlab users.
There is no such thing as bad publicity.
> There is no such thing as bad publicity.
I hear Osborne is going to release a new computer soon. It's going to be much better than the current one, so why bother to buy what's on sale now?
Gerald Ratner says that some of the earrings his store stocks are as cheap as a prawn sandwich, and will last about as long. People are talking so... good for him, eh?